Before Dawn

Chapter 2

A little boy with black short hair is sitting at the extreme of the wall trying to stay away from the heat and smoke emitting from the fire spreading all over the building. He hugs himself tightly as he shouts for help. He looks around as most of the furniture in the house is on fire which is blocking his chance of escaping. He looks up and sees a part of the roof falling down on him.
"Ahhh." Type gasps as he jolts up from the nightmare. He is panting as he tries to catch his breathe. He finally notices it's morning because of the sunlight rays in his room. He stands up and goes to his bathroom and takes a shower.
      After dressing up for a work, he goes to the living room and just opposite it is the kitchen where he sees his mom preparing breakfast.
"Good morning mom." Type greets from the living room.
"Morning. Breakfast is also ready. Call your sister to come and eat." Sarocha says turning off the burner and transferring the foods into plates.
"I'm already here." Mai closes her room door as soon as she walks out. She's dressed in her school uniform, white shirt and black skirt.
     Sarocha brings the plates of food to the dining table beside the kitchen. They all sit and eat the food quickly especially Type and Mai. After the meal, Type quickly leave the house making sure to take his company's sales kit. As he walked further down the street, he sees one of Daylinx representative in the television talking about the new product, Luv n Face.
   He stops and admires the handsome guy with black hair neatly combed and shiny.
"I wouldn't mind dating him." Type says absent minded. He continues walking and stops at a neighbourhood. He knocks on a red gate and a woman comes out of her duplex house. The woman comes closer to the gate.
"How may I help you?" The woman asks without opening the small gate.
"Good morning, I'm from Daylinx company. I just wanted to show you some of our products we think you would love." Type says maintaining a decent smiling face
"Really? I was thinking of coming to buy it directly but it seems you made it easier for me. Please come in." The woman happily opens the gate for Type to come in then they go into her house.
      Sarocha takes all the plate into the washing sink in the kitchen and goes to her bedroom to rest a little. She brings a pink present box from under her bed and opens it. She brings out the blue bow tie and drops it on the bed. She brings a wrist band. It has  beads all over it but in the middle is "Type" written on a thin long silver plate.
                    20 YEARS AGO
   Sarocha comes back to the warehouse holding a takeaway plate of rice and a bottle of coke. As she neared the warehouse, she perceives something burning and she quickly runs to the warehouse and sees it on fire.
"Oh my God. If something happens to that young boy I'm dead." Sarocha nears the warehouse and it got a lot hotter. She kicks the door open with enough energy she could gather.
"Boy, where are you?" Sarocha shouts. She covers her eyes trying to protect it from the heat and smoke all over the warehouse. She walks inside the warehouse and hears the boy crying loudly. She goes towards the sound and sees the young boy squeezed at a corner shivering in fear as tears flow down his eyes and cheeks.
   She quickly runs to him and picks him up. Just then, some large debris from the roof falls on them. immediately Sarocha uses her hand to protect themselves. With pain, she pushes the debris away. She looks at her arm and it's badly damaged and burnt. She quickly runs out of the warehouse with the young child embracing her tightly.

  Sarocha touches the part of her arm that got burnt in the incident which left a burnt scar. She puts Type's belonging back in the box and shoves it under the bed. She tucks herself under the bed sheet and sleeps off.

         Fighter walks into the hotel room and sees his boss, Tharn sleeping under the bed sheet naked. He moves the curtain on the window causing light to shine in the room making it very bright. Tharn quickly covers himself with the bedsheets.
"Just give me five minutes." Tharn says trying to go back to sleep.
"The chairman will be holding a meeting in the next thirty minutes and he expects you to be there." Fighter says standing at the window side.
      Tharn quickly throws the bedsheets away from him and stands up running into the bathroom revealing his butts making Fighter to look away.
   Fighter and Tharn arrive at Thananan Group Company building. Outside the company are the workers standing all lined waiting for his and his father's arrival. Soon his father arrives, Mr Thananan and his son, Tharn with his personal assistant and body guard, Fighter walk into the building as the workers greet the owners of the company.
     Mr Thananan, Tharn and the shareholders of the company are seated in the large conference room around a long table.
"When I built this company, I had absolutely nothing. I worked hard from the scratch to get where I am. I know many of you think I'm satisfied but honestly I'm not. I still need more." Mr Thananan says. He looks around expecting his partners to say something but they don't.
"But Mr Thananan, we have industries specializing in drugs, machineries, cooking utensils and products, clothes. What more do you want?" A woman says who is sitting the extreme left side of the table says.
"We have to invest more in other aspects. We may still be getting more investors but we need extra more. What if one of those aspects fail then what are you going to do?"
     After much discussion, Mr Thananan stands up and leaves so does his son do. Tharn sees the secretary rubbing a cream gently on her face. Tharn clears his throat making the girl to hide the cream. She stands up from her chair and bows her head slightly avoiding the man's gaze.
"May I have that cream?" Tharn asks the secretary. The secretary quickly brings the pink bottle and hands to the man dressed in white suit.
Tharn takes the cream studying it carefully.
"Tharn, what are you doing?" His father asks seeing his son looking a cream bottle.
"Exactly what you wanted me to do." Tharn smirks. "We have got ourselves a new project, Luv n Face."